EE219A: Computer Analysis of Electrical Circuits Outline Lecture 3.1
DC Analysis of Nonlinear Circuits
Contraction Mapping Theorems
Newton’s Method
Newton-Raphson Method
Rate of Convergence
Techniques for Reducing the Cost of Newton-Raphson
Potential Problems
Implications
Computational Aspects
Modeling a Diode
MNA Templates
Modeling a MOSFET (MOS Level 1, linear regime)
DC Analysis Flow Diagram
Numerical Overflow
Nonconvergence
Limiting Algorithm
Improving Convergence
Optimization-Based Approaches
Continuation Methods
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